When opening the program it gives an option to download a reference genome. I selected Zea Mays, B73 v3. Then on the screen it gives the following message:
"Not enough bytes in packed blob to parse out data"

It must not be fully loading the reference. Is there something different I need to do to fully see the reference genome.

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